New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Tokyo tomorrow. Notably, that is the primary in-person assembly between the 2 leaders after the Russia-Ukraine conflict began on February 24 final 12 months. The Ukrainian president is attending the summit on an invite by Japan, the present chair of the highly effective grouping. Since the Ukraine battle started, PM Modi has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in addition to President Zelenskyy various occasions. New Delhi has sought a diplomatic resolution to the battle whereas Modi, in feedback seen as mildly vital of Russian President Vladimir Putin, advised him in September that now was “not an era of war”.
Prime Minister Modi’s attraction to President Putin for a “cessation of violence” and for all sides to return to the dialogue desk was actually a notch up from India’s earlier explicitly impartial stance, and carried a touch of the compulsions to get off the fence, although nonetheless largely sustaining a stability.
PM Modi’s cellphone dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin underlined that Delhi will for now follow a path of strategic ambivalence on the Ukraine disaster. This is a practical selection, one which displays the complexities of a realist world and Delhi’s personal positions on territorial integrity and sovereignty, its personal considerations about its unresolved borders, it is a troublesome relationship with its two northern neighbours.
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In a cellphone dialog with President Zelenskyy on October 4 final 12 months, PM Modi stated there may be “no military solution” and that India is able to contribute to any peace efforts. India has maintained that the disaster should be resolved by diplomacy and dialogue.
PM Modi is in Japan to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit. The prime minister is visiting the East Asian nation on the invitation of his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida.
Japan is internet hosting the G7 summit as the present chair of the highly effective grouping. PM Modi shall be in Hiroshima for the G7 summit from May 19 to May 21. He is anticipated to talk on international challenges, together with meals, fertiliser and vitality safety.
Notably, PM Modi will maintain bilateral conferences with Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and France forward of the Quad Summit, tomorrow. He will meet Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the Republic of Korea; Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Vietnam; and Emmanuel Macron, President of France.
